Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the TOM allows investors to avoid purchasing shares , the higher the actual and expected levels of interest rates the greater the incentive to use options and delay the acquisition of shares in order to benefit from the rates of return prevailing or expected in the money markets . |
| 2 | In the same year an Act was passed declaring that from henceforth the boundaries of all the royal forests should be taken to extend no further than those ‘ commonly reputed , used or taken in the twentieth year of the reign of James I [ 1622–23 ] . |
| 3 | In terms of subject areas ethnic minority teachers are under-represented in modern language and feel marginalised as in some cases these posts are section 11 funded or concentrated in the areas of special needs . |
| 4 | With the number of trees lost in the gales of autumn 1987 and again in 1990 , surely we can devise some material other than timber products , to end up burnt or rotting in the earth ? |
| 5 | But all over the pastoral Midlands and the south of England too , the canals flowed clear and sparkling in the sunshine , something new in the landscape with their towpaths , lock-keepers ’ cottages , stables for canal horses , their Navigation or Canal Inns where they met a main road , and their long and narrow gaily painted boats . |
| 6 | The aqueous solution was made fresh daily and used in the rats at a dose 10 times higher ( 50 µg/kg ) than that shown in separate experiments on these animals to reduce by 50% the platelet activating factor induced hypotension ( ID 5 =5 µg/kg ip ) . |
| 7 | Here the marginality is less transitory and occurs in the post-tribal situation where the concept of liminality is less familiar to the discipline , even though transitions across spatial and temporal boundaries still create epistemological changes of the kind Turner describes . |
| 8 | Each time she read the story , she experienced a new shock ; it was the shock of finding the new contained and expressed in the framework and the terms of the old . |
| 9 | But somehow they are wrong , for at every stage of this incredible race — at every stage , that is , bar the one that matters , at the winning post — the only rightful winner had to be Crisp , whose astonishing display of galloping and jumping in the toughest race in the calendar must , were there any justice in the world , have been blessed with success . |
| 10 | A man leaped down from a window five storeys high and drowned in the river . |
| 11 | There is still an element of polarisation , however , which proclaims ‘ belief in the old and distrust in the new ’ . |
| 12 | The Cherry and Whites ca n't wait to ring out the old and ring in the new . |
| 13 | Again , Yanto managed to grab the tail , and yet again the fish broke free and leapt in the air . |
| 14 | The sun was high and bright as he dropped gently out of the hills towards the vale , faintly misted with vapour , and saw in the far distance before him the mole-hill of Ruthyn , hunched and veiled in the smoke of its house-fires , a delicate blue flower in the sparkling folded green , with the giant hogback of Moel Famau towering beyond . |
| 15 | The MSG promotes contacts between academics , civil servants , Bank of England officials , private bankers , stockbrokers , and others interested and working in the fields of money and banking , finance , and macroeconomic policy . |
| 16 | It is healthy ; it is strong ; and I think it will continue to grow and become even more exciting and challenging in the future . |
| 17 | All that is most sensible and clearheaded in the Catholic church will meet in Rome on May 17 to celebrate the beatification of Mgr Josemaria Escriva ( 1902–1975 ) who founded Opus Dei , the unecstatic religious movement which may yet save Christianity from the sex therapists . |
| 18 | He traces the origins of contemporary attitudes to professionalism and public services , to the Victorian period , and argues that the model we have inherited is outmoded and stands in the way of improving professionally relationships . |
| 19 | What the Government are doing about the inspectorate is extremely foolish and flies in the face of its proud history . |
| 20 | Will society want them to be literate and numerate in the senses we now use the words ? |
| 21 | Note that , roughly speaking , ( i ) ( ii ) and ( iii ) are means to ( iv ) ends which reflect the real purposes of the college ; and it is the ends , the most important elements which tend to get lost or blurred in the confusion of the standard , over-crowded subject-based curriculum . |
| 22 | " People fetch them from the office and mean to take them round , and then they get lost or dropped in the water . |
| 23 | The chef promises to deliver a three course meal for your dinner party , cooked and served in the manner of the Roman era … complete with togas . |
| 24 | Something inhuman bellowed and roared in the stairwell . |
| 25 | And when the bridal party came out into the church porch and stood blinking and smiling in the winter daylight , Sir Felix Lark , his wild eyes excessively unstable , was instantly at Linnet 's elbow , topping the suave invitations of Mr Adolphus Moon to meet his artistic friends with offers to mount her for the Far Flatley hunt . |
| 26 | He pulled out of the dive and cleared the target area , every joint and spar in the aeroplane shuddering under the strain . |
| 27 | Wisely he opted to keep it simple and put in the name David . |
| 28 | Suffocating and smothering in the gelatinous mucous … |
| 29 | The caterers arrived too early and got in the way of the woman who was doing the flowers . |
| 30 | We were early and stood in the playground . |